That protoplanet, which the researchers estimate to have been 150 miles in
diameter, would have barreled into the moon at 22,000 miles per hour,
striking at an angle of 30 degrees with such force that it left scars in
the moons surface up to 300 miles long.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0721/What-formed-the-right-eye-of-the-Man-in-the-Moon
Isn't it time we did a geological survey of the Moon?
Selvaraj
Isn't it time we did a geological survey of the Moon?
Selvaraj
sailorbarsoom@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
Count me in. I'm in the camp that thinks it very likely there are large
deposits of PGMs on the Moon, but we haven't yet done any survey
detailed enough to find them.
Am 24.07.2016 um 03:45 schrieb Joe Strout joe@... [spacesettlers]:
>
> sailorbarsoom@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
>
>> A geological survey of the moon? Sounds like a good idea to me!
>
> Count me in. I'm in the camp that thinks it very likely there are large
> deposits of PGMs on the Moon, but we haven't yet done any survey
> detailed enough to find them.
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Am 24.07.2016 um 03:45 schrieb Joe Strout joe@... [spacesettlers]:
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> sailorbarsoom@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
>
>> A geological survey of the moon? Sounds like a good idea to me!
>
> Count me in. I'm in the camp that thinks it very likely there are large
> deposits of PGMs on the Moon, but we haven't yet done any survey
> detailed enough to find them.
the problem is that many of the processes concentrating these materials
to mineable concentration are missing on the moon ..
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Baur baur@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
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> the problem is that many of the processes concentrating these materials
> to mineable concentration are missing on the moon ..
Yes, it's true, the valuable minerals are likely to be diffuse.
On the other hand, there's a very sensible business boot-strap approach
here, which is to initially, just pick up any old rocks that happen to
be conveniently at hand, bring 'em back, and sell them. Lunar
meteorites (the only source of lunar material commercially available at
the moment) sell for $1k to $10k per gram, or 20-200 times as valuable
as gold [1]. Real, un-meteorized moon rocks would sell for at least
that much, probably more, at least until the market were saturated.
So, you start by selling moon rocks, and use that to fund prospecting &
mining operations. What counts as "mineable concentration" depends on
your technology (and relative abundance of alternative sources). I
suspect we'll be able to make good use of those deposits -- but time
will tell.
[1]
http://gizmodo.com/heres-where-well-build-our-first-space-mines-according-1707203598
Am 03.08.2016 um 23:51 schrieb Joe Strout joe@... [spacesettlers]:
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> Baur baur@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
>
>> ahh - platinium group metals ..
>>
>> the problem is that many of the processes concentrating these materials
>> to mineable concentration are missing on the moon ..
>
> Yes, it's true, the valuable minerals are likely to be diffuse.
>
> On the other hand, there's a very sensible business boot-strap approach
> here, which is to initially, just pick up any old rocks that happen to
> be conveniently at hand, bring 'em back, and sell them. Lunar
> meteorites (the only source of lunar material commercially available at
> the moment) sell for $1k to $10k per gram, or 20-200 times as valuable
> as gold [1]. Real, un-meteorized moon rocks would sell for at least
> that much, probably more, at least until the market were saturated.
small ..
servus
markus
> So, you start by selling moon rocks, and use that to fund prospecting &
> mining operations. What counts as "mineable concentration" depends on
> your technology (and relative abundance of alternative sources). I
> suspect we'll be able to make good use of those deposits -- but time
> will tell.
>
> [1]
> http://gizmodo.com/heres-where-well-build-our-first-space-mines-according-1707203598
>
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